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Pan Press
Frying Pan with Clamshell/Tortilla-style Press | |
It's a clamshell type of electric cooking appliance, with the lower part of the clamshell looking like a frying pan, and the upper part of the clamshell would be like the upper part of a tortilla press which simply presses down into the pan.
Keep the clamshell open, and cook food in the lower half
like you would in a frying pan. But the upper part can swing down to clamp down like a tortilla press, nesting itself within the walls of the frying pan.
I wouldn't call this another version of a Panini Press or a Foreman Grill, because those aren't meant to clamp down tightly like a tortilla press can. And this is round, not rectangular.
With this clamshell-type appliance, you could literally flatten and cook a tortilla at the same time. And without using the upper portion of the clamshell, you could also cook the meat for it in the bottom portion that's like an electric frying pan.
Both the upper and lower parts are electrically heated hot surfaces. Perhaps there could be a doorstop type of mechanism that could be used to keep the upper part from swinging down all the way and clamping tightly. Instead it would stop the upper clamshell a couple of inches from the bottom, to enable you to cook a pizza by closely applying heat from above (and below) without squashing down tightly. (I guess that mode would be a little more like a Panini Press)
Electric Tortilla Press (no sidewalls like a pan)
https://www.youtube...watch?v=JFAC1p5cetc
[sanman, Sep 19 2024]
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Think it's too similar to a Foreman grill to be described as an original idea. |
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If this had an ultra-low power setting, I wonder whether it could be used to press flowers, possibly embossing then into 3d shapes. |
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@ xenzag: but you can't make a tortilla in a Foreman grill or a Panini Press. They won't squash things flat. |
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But will it make a Cuban sandwich? It would need a spacing hinge that allows 1.5-1.75" for the height of the food. |
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If you make both halves from cast iron, and deep enough, you could use it in the closed position as a normal frying pan, and only lift up the top part when you need to use it as a press. Two complete frying pans in one, nestled together like Russian dolls with a hinge. It would take a bit longer than usual to get it hot due to the extra thickness, but that's no biggie. The extra weight would provide a workout while cooking, bonus! |
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@ 21 Quest: That's not too bad either. Maybe even better is to just have it as an electric frying pan which the upper press part can be optionally attached onto. But I'd mainly wanted something that was like an electric tortilla press where you could even squash out a smash burger without the juices dripping off the griddle (so the lower part would be pan rather than just a griddle without sidewalls) |
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[21Q] and then you could use the electrically heated top pan to fry a second tortilla. Of course you would need a third hinged from behind to press down the second tortilla, but that inevitably leads to the mile-high thousand-pan-stack with its own dedicated sub-station to run the heating elements. |
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